Joe Johnston could have done anything after Captain America: The First Avenger, and what he chose to do was run in the opposite direction with a micro-budget thriller.

Not Safe for Work stars Max Minghella (The Social Network) as a paralegal who gets trapped in his office building with a killer (J.J. Feild) on the loose. It’s the latest from producer Jason Blum, the hotshot producer behind Paranormal Activity, Sinister, and Insidious. So the pedigree is pretty promising, but how does the film itself look? Watch the trailer (which, despite the title, is totally SFW) after the jump.

Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston got a nice career boost thanks to the success of his WWII superhero movie, but surprisingly Johnston isn’t moving right back into the big movie arena with his next project.

He’s just signed to direct a ‘micro-budget’ thriller called Not Safe For Work, which is produced by Blumhouse Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Universal. It sounds like quite a departure from making movies on the scale of Captain America, The Wolfman and Jurassic Park III. Read More »